De complete werken van Joost van Vondel. Hymnus of Lofzang van de Kristelijke Ridder, [etc.]

A collected volume of seventeenth-century Dutch poetry and drama presenting devotional hymns and grim tragedies. The pieces use allegory and biblical imagery to depict a warrior's conversion from worldly arms to spiritual armor, with personified virtues — Wisdom, the World, and the Flesh — arguing for faith, righteousness, and restraint. Poems combine vivid battlefield and courtly scenes with contemplative prayer, sacramental language, and moral exhortation. Dramatic works stage lamentations and warnings about civic and religious collapse, employing rhetorical address and tragic spectacle to urge repentance. Overall the collection blends rhetorical flourish, metaphysical argument, and theatrical mourning to explore faith, temptation, and communal suffering.